Heard in the Friars Barber Shop

A man walks into the Friars barbershop, sits down in the chair and the barber asks, “How do you want your haircut?” The man says, ” I would like the sideburns one high and one low, a few long hairs sticking out of the back and a few chunks on the side and top.” The barber looks puzzled and says, “I’m not sure I can do that.” The customer says, “Why not, you did it that way last time.”

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C. Guy Suits

Died 14 Aug 1991 at age 86 (born 12 Mar 1905). Chauncey Guy Suits was an American electrical engineer and research director who joined the General Electric Company in 1930, and subsequently directed the company's research laboratory and was vice-president (1945-65). He helped develop a new process, announced in 1962, to create synthetic diamonds by compressing carbon in a large hydraulic press at pressures up to three million pounds per square inch, while simultaneously heated to 9,000 ºF, without needing the metal catalyst agent previously used. He held 77 U.S. patents, in such varied applications as railway block signal improvements, circuits for sequence-flashing electric signs, radio circuits, beacons, submarine signals, theater light dimmers and photo-electric relays. Upon his retirement from G.E., he consulted on industrial research management.«

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